Relational Group Psychotherapy

Introduction, James S. Grotstein; the authority of the group therapist's psychology; the therapist's anxiety and resistance to group; the basic conflict - to think or anti-think - applying Bion's theory of thinking to group; entitled thinking, dream thinking and group process; containing and thinking - the three relational levels of the container-contained; containing the adolescent group; bonding - the therapist's contribution; rebellion in group primal affects - loving, hating, and knowing; primary receptivity - the passionate therapist - the passionate group.

This book was a true delight... [Billow] has brought Bion's early work on the group experience, Bion's complex theoretical writing on the basic assumptions (i.e., three types of primitive object relations, fantasies and affects which individuals project and act out in social settings), and Bion's writing on the countertranference experience, together.